Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy - Eamon Javers [142]
Willis Inspace, 204n
Woodward, Bob, 118, 189n
Woolston-Smith, James, 151n
Workplace shootings, 250–51
WorldView, Inc., 215
Wright, Laura, 188
Xinhua Finance, 248
Xinhua News Agency, 248
Yeltsin, Boris, 127–29, 276, 280
Yost, Benjamin, 52, 54
Yukos, 279–80
Zelmanowitz, Gerald (aka Paul Maris), 76–81
Ziff, William, Jr., 188
Ziff Brothers Investments, 188–91
About the Author
EAMON JAVERS is a correspondent for Politico, where he covers the Obama White House and the economy. Earlier in his career, he was a Washington correspondent for Business Week magazine and an on-air correspondent for CNBC. In 2006, he received an investigative reporting award from the Medill School of Journalism for a story exposing how convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff had secretly paid columnists to write favorable stories about his clients. Javers appears frequently on CNN, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, CNBC, and BBC. He is a graduate of Colgate University, and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Maureen, and two children.
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BROKER, TRADER, LAWYER, SPY. Copyright © 2010 by Eamon Javers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Javers, Eamon.
Broker, trader, lawyer, spy: the secret world of corporate espionage / Eamon Javers.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-06-169720-3
1. Business intelligence. 2. Espionage. I. Title.
HD38.7.J38 2010
364. 16'8—dc22 2009031010
EPub Edition © January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-196938-6
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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